Nabla— AI revolutionizing a doctor's day

Nabla, an ambient AI assistant, generates clinical notes in seconds. It structures and summarizes encounters in real-time, saving physicians hours on clinical documentation. Founded by Alex Lebrun, a serial entrepreneur and former head of Meta’s engineering for AI research, Nabla is known for designing and building exceptional technology.

Nabla— AI revolutionizing a doctor's day

Nabla, an ambient AI assistant, generates clinical notes in seconds. It structures and summarizes encounters in real-time, saving physicians hours on clinical documentation. Founded by Alex Lebrun, a serial entrepreneur and former head of Meta’s engineering for AI research, Nabla is known for designing and building exceptional technology.

Nabla— AI revolutionizing a doctor's day

Nabla, an ambient AI assistant, generates clinical notes in seconds. It structures and summarizes encounters in real-time, saving physicians hours on clinical documentation. Founded by Alex Lebrun, a serial entrepreneur and former head of Meta’s engineering for AI research, Nabla is known for designing and building exceptional technology.

From care delivery platform to ambient scribe

From care delivery platform to ambient scribe

From care delivery platform to ambient scribe

From care delivery platform to ambient scribe

When Alex, the CEO, and Laurent, the Chief Product Officer, approached me for assistance, I eagerly accepted. Nabla’s initial product was a care delivery platform similar to the one I built at Sherpaa, but it incorporated AI magic throughout most of its features. At the time, I was interested in developing virtual care practices and sought a platform that could primarily facilitate asynchronous care delivery. As they developed this platform, they also began working on an ambient AI scribe for online doctor-patient verbal conversations. Given the limited market for an asynchronous care delivery platform, I advised them to abandon that product and focus solely on their ambient AI product, Nabla Copilot.


My role then became helping the Nabla team define:

  • the early features of Copilot

  • the product roadmap and strategy

  • The sales strategy


And finally, most importantly, my role at this stage was evangelizing Nabla to the US industry via my network of thought leaders and decision-makers who have followed my writings and doings over the years. I’ve been around long enough to know that the best technology rarely wins in healthcare. It’s the companies that realize early on that success comes from sales chops first and technical chops second. But Nabla is a special company. They understand the power of beautiful design and elegant branding. Those are the kinds of companies I love to work with and build. Everything is art to me. It should all be elegant and beautiful.

Legacy

Legacy

Legacy

Legacy

As of early 2025, Nabla has raised a total of $49M, has 45,000+ clinician users, is deployed in 80+ institutions, supports 55 specialties in many different languages, is integrated with the top EHRs, and is growing like mad. Congrats to the team, they're crushing it.


At the same time I was working with Nabla, I was also consulting for Sana Benefits. Sana eventually hired me full time to build a virtual primary care practice for them. We used Nabla’s Care Platform to power that practice knowing we had roughly 9 months before Nabla sunsetted the platform. So we got to work building our own care platform at Sana.